• Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    We’re trying that in Canada right now, and it’s making a lot of people very angry.

    Those people are ignorant and wrong, but they’re loud enough that even parties on the left are saying “maybe we should try something else.”

    It is really interesting to think about how we built our entire society around gas being insanely cheap. You can buy a gallon of it for $3, which is as much as you would pay for a large cup of coffee in most places, something which we have essentially an infinite supply of.

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      8 months ago

      World yearly oil consumption (2021): 35,442,913,090 barrels (42 US gal)

      World coffee production (2022): 175.35 million (60kg bags)

      It’s not even close. lol

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        8 months ago

        You are correct that it’s not close, but also you need gas in the gallons, and you need coffee in the tablespoons